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The Anatomy of American Popular Culture, 1840-1861by Carl BodeISBN 0313240051 (0-313-24005-1)
Hardcover, Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
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Anatomy of Filmby Bernard F. DickISBN 0312415168 (0-312-41516-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anatomy of Film'Book summary:This long awaited third edition offers a clearly written introduction to the art of film. Retaining its emphasis on the fundamentals of critical analysis and evaluation, it includes a complete guide to the elements of film as well as substantial coverage of film criticism and analysis of film genres. It includes over 80 stills from film classics both past and present. [via]
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Softcover, Bedford/st Martins - Anatomy of Film: ISBN 0312259441 (0-312-25944-1)
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Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animationby Susan Jolliffe NapierISBN 0312238630 (0-312-23863-0)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Anonymous Was a Womanby Mirra BankISBN 0312041861 (0-312-04186-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanismby Rudolf WittkowerISBN 031202083X (0-312-02083-X)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Art After Midnight: The East Village Sceneby Steven HagerISBN 0312049765 (0-312-04976-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Art and Politics in the Weimar Period: The New Sobriety, 1917-1933by John WillettISBN 0306807246 (0-306-80724-6)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Art and Politics in the Weimar Period: The New Sobriety, 1917-1933'Book summary:The period between the end of World War I and Hitler's ascension to power witnessed an unprecedented cultural explosion that embraced the whole of Europe but was, above all, centered in Germany. Germany housed architect Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus movement; playwrights Bertolt Brecht and Erwin Piscator; artists Hans Richter, George Grosz, John Heartfield, and Hannah Hoch; composers Paul Hindemith, Arnold Schonberg, and Kurt Weill; and dozens of others. In Art and Politics in the Weimar Period, John Willett provides a brilliant explanation of the aesthetic and political currents which made Germany the focal point of a new, down-to-earth, socially committed cultural movement that drew a significant measure of inspiration from revolutionary Russia, left-wing social thought, American technology, and the devastating experience of war.[via]More editions of Art and Politics in the Weimar Period: The New Sobriety, 1917-1933:
The Art of Tasha Tudorby Harry DavisISBN 0316164917 (0-316-16491-7)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loyby Carolyn BurkeISBN 0374109648 (0-374-10964-8)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Black and White Photography: A Basic Manualby Henry HorensteinISBN 0316373052 (0-316-37305-2)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Colorby Philip BallISBN 0374116792 (0-374-11679-2)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color'Book summary:The making of a painting relies on inspiration, craft, practice, and vision. But, observes the noted science writer Philip Ball, it also hinges on science: "For as long as painters have fashioned their visions and dreams into images, they have relied on technical knowledge and skill to supply their materials."
In this lively study, Ball examines some of the tools and materials that chemists have added to the palette over the centuries. He also takes his readers on a learned tour of what science has taught us about vision, the nature of light, and the physical and cultural factors that condition our perceptions of color (the ancient Romans, he notes, had no term for brown or gray, but that does not mean they didn't use earth pigments in their work). Whether writing of matters scientific or artistic, Ball is a technologist but not a determinist. In the end, he writes, art depends not on science but on artists, and "each artist makes his or her own contract with the colors of the time."
Readers with an interest in science, art, and the crossroads where they meet will relish Ball's erudite travels across the spectrum of light. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Caravaggio : A Novelby Christopher PeachmentISBN 0312314485 (0-312-31448-5)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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The Catcher in the Ryeby J. D. SalingerISBN 0316769487 (0-316-76948-7)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Catcher in the Rye'Book summary:Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories ? particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme ? With Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is fully of children. The hero-narrator of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult voices, underground voices-but Holden's voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep. [via]
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Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonistby Chuck JonesISBN 0374123489 (0-374-12348-9)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Completely Mad: A History of the Comic Book and Magazineby Maria ReidelbachISBN 0316738913 (0-316-73891-3)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Daliby Salvador DaliISBN 0345295412 (0-345-29541-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Diaryby Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain), Hugh Maxwell CassonISBN 0333311124 (0-333-31112-4)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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Dirty Pictures: Tom of Finland, Masculinity and Homosexualityby Micha RamakersISBN 031227694X (0-312-27694-X)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Dirty Pictures: Tom of Finland, Masculinity and Homosexualityby Tom, Micha RamakersISBN 0312205260 (0-312-20526-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dirty Pictures: Tom of Finland, Masculinity and Homosexuality'Book summary:In a gay heaven, the choir robes would be designed by Gautier after drawings by Tom of Finland. Even on Earth, utopia must be approaching when the musclebound torsos and bulging baskets of Tom's manly men attract a full-length critical study. Art historian Micha Ramakers, who previously edited a monograph of Tom of Finland's drawings, argues persuasively for the influence of these hyper-masculine figures on gay culture since the mid-1950s, when the artist's renderings of fantasy men first began to appear in American beefcake magazines. Although the consistency of Tom of Finland's technique and themes over the four decades of his working life doesn't leave Ramakers much room to discuss the development of his subject's talents, he makes ample use of his few opportunities (like the introduction of more black figures in the mid-1980s, after the artist spent six months in the U.S.). More rewardingly, he uses the pornographer's work as a lens for examining the evolution of gay masculinity since the 1950s. --Regina Marler [via]
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Edouard Manet: Rebel in a Frock Coatby Beth Archer BrombertISBN 0316109479 (0-316-10947-9)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical Presentby Arthur C. DantoISBN 0374148198 (0-374-14819-8)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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The English Dreamersby David LarkinISBN 0330245023 (0-330-24502-3)
Hardcover, Pan Books
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Eva Hesseby Lucy R. LippardISBN 0306804840 (0-306-80484-0)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Eyre Affairby Jasper FfordeISBN 0340820470 (0-340-82047-0)
Hardcover, Hodder & Stoughton
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Flemish & Dutch Drawings: From the 15th to the 18th Centuryby Colin T. EislerISBN 0316225215 (0-316-22521-5)
Hardcover, Little, Brown
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Flight of Fancy: The Banishment and Return of Ornamentby Brent C. BrolinISBN 0312296134 (0-312-29613-4)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigmaby Michael PeppiattISBN 0374104948 (0-374-10494-8)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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French Drawings from the 15th Century through Gericaultby Jean Vallery-RadotISBN 0316895407 (0-316-89540-7)
Hardcover, Little, Brown
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From David to Ingres: Early 19Th-Century French Artistsby Jane TurnerISBN 0312229704 (0-312-22970-4)
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From Expressionism to Post-Modernism: Styles and Movements in 20Th-Century Western Artby Jane TurnerISBN 0312229763 (0-312-22976-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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From Monet to Cezanne: Late 19Th-Century French Artistsby Jane TurnerISBN 0312229712 (0-312-22971-2)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From Monet to Cezanne: Late 19Th-Century French Artists'Book summary:The late 19th century in France is indisputably the most popular period in the history of Western Art. This book gathers together more than 300 in-depth biographies of artists from this ground-breaking era. It highlights the work of painters who brought about the artistic revolutions of Realism, Impressionism, and Post-Impressionism--from Millet to Courbet, to household names such as Monet, Manet, and Renoir, as well as Cézanne and Gaugin. Sculptors and graphic artists, among them Rodin and Toulouse-Lautrec, are also included.
This unprecedented book draws together biographies of artists who worked in one of the most exciting and dramatic political eras in France, when Paris became the artistic capital of Europe. It features in-depth studies of such well-known Neo-classical artists as Jacques-Louis David, and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, the artist most revered by his fellow countrymen. Also included are artists of the Romantic Movement, like Delacroix and Gericault, as well as the painters of the Barbizon School, whose plein-air landscapes anticipated those of the Impressionists. [via]More editions of From Monet to Cezanne: Late 19Th-Century French Artists:
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From Rembrandt to Vermeer: 17Th-Century Dutch Artistsby Jane TurnerISBN 0312229720 (0-312-22972-0)
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This unprecedented book draws together biographies of artists who worked in one of the most exciting and dramatic political eras in France, when Paris became the artistic capital of Europe. It features in-depth studies of such well-known Neo-classical artists as Jacques-Louis David, and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, the artist most revered by his fellow countrymen. Also included are artists of the Romantic Movement, like Delacroix and Gericault, as well as the painters of the Barbizon School, whose plein-air landscapes anticipated those of the Impressionists. [via]More editions of From Rembrandt to Vermeer: 17Th-Century Dutch Artists:
From Renaissance to Impressionism: Styles and Movements in Western Art, 1400-1900by Jane TurnerISBN 0312229755 (0-312-22975-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The Future of the Pastby Alexander StilleISBN 0312420943 (0-312-42094-3)
Softcover, Picador USA
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The God Who Is There:Speaking Historic Christianity into the Twentieth Century: Speaking Historic Christianity into the Twentieth Centuryby Francisa SchaefferISBN 0340044667 (0-340-04466-7)
Hardcover, Hodder & Stoughton
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Himalayan Art: Wall-Painting and Sculpture in Ladakh, Lahaul and Spiti, the Siwalik Ranges, Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutanby Madanjeet SinghISBN 0333120663 (0-333-12066-3)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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History of Silverby Claude BlairISBN 0345345762 (0-345-34576-2)
Hardcover, Ballantine Books
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How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New Yorkby Jacob A. Riis, David LeviatinISBN 0312117000 (0-312-11700-0)
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Hunter's Diseases of Occupationsby Peter H. Adams, Peter J. Baxter, Tar-Ching Aw, Anne Cockcroft, J. Malcolm Harrington, Donald HunterISBN 0340677503 (0-340-67750-3)
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Jackson Pollock: Energy Made Visibleby B. H. FriedmanISBN 0306806649 (0-306-80664-9)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixtyby Carolyn G. HeilbrunISBN 0345422953 (0-345-42295-3)
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Lost in a Good Bookby Jasper FfordeISBN 0340733578 (0-340-73357-8)
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The Love-Artistby Jane AlisonISBN 0312420064 (0-312-42006-4)
Softcover, Picador USA
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The Madonna of the Future: Essays in a Pluralistic Art Worldby Arthur C. DantoISBN 0374106134 (0-374-10613-4)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Magic Mirror of M. C. Escherby Bruno ErnstISBN 0345242432 (0-345-24243-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Magic Mirror of M. C. Escher'Book summary:"A woman once rang me up and said, 'Mr. Escher, I am absolutely crazy about your work. In your print Reptiles you have given such a striking illustration of reincarnation.' I replied, 'Madame, if that's the way you see it, so be it, '" An engagingly sly comment by the renowned Dutch graphic artist Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972)--the complex ambiguities of whose work leave hasty or single-minded interpretations far behind. Long before the first computer-generated 3-D images were thrilling the public, Escher was a master of the third dimension. His lithograph "Magic Mirror" dates as far back as 1946. In taking that title for this book, mathematician Bruno Ernst is stressing the magic spell Escher's work invariably casts on those who see it. Ernst visited Escher every week for a year, systematically talking through his entire oeuvre with him. Their discussions resulted in a friendship that gave Ernst intimate access to the life and conceptual world of Escher. Ernst's account was meticulously scrutinized and made accurate by the artist himself. Escher's work refuses to be pigeonholed. Scientific, psychological, or aesthetic criteria alone cannot do it justice. The questions remain. Why did he create the pictures? How did he construct them? What preliminary studies were necessary before he could arrive at the final version? And how are the various images Escher created interrelated? This book, complete with biographical data, 250 illustrations, and explications of mathematical problems, offers answers to these and many other questions, and is an authentic source text of the first order.[via]More editions of The Magic Mirror of M. C. Escher:
Magritteby Rene MagritteISBN 0345026926 (0-345-02692-6)
Hardcover, Ballantine Books
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Man Rayby Roland Penrose, Man RayISBN 0316544876 (0-316-54487-6)
Softcover, New York Graphic Society
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The Man Who Stole the Mona Lisaby Robert NoahISBN 0312169167 (0-312-16916-7)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Marinetti: Selected Writingsby Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, R. W. FlintISBN 0374202907 (0-374-20290-7)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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The Medieval Fortress: Castles, Forts and Walled Cities of the Middle Agesby J. E. Kaufmann, H. W. Kaufmann, Robert M. JurgaISBN 0306813580 (0-306-81358-0)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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Michelangelo And The Reinvention Of The Human Bodyby James Hall, Michelangelo BuonarrotiISBN 0374208832 (0-374-20883-2)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Moon and Sixpenceby W. Somerset MaughamISBN 0330241117 (0-330-24111-7)
Hardcover, Pan Books
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Nazi Plunder: Great Treasure Stories of World War IIby Kenneth D. AlfordISBN 030681241X (0-306-81241-X)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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The New Subjectivism: Art in the 1980'sby Donald KuspitISBN 0306805383 (0-306-80538-3)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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The Nonborn Kingby Julian MayISBN 0345347498 (0-345-34749-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Off the Wall: A Portrait of Rober Rauschenbergby Calvin TomkinsISBN 0312425856 (0-312-42585-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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On Photographyby Susan SontagISBN 0312420099 (0-312-42009-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Originals: American Women Artistsby Eleanor MunroISBN 0306809559 (0-306-80955-9)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Paradise Lost. Book 10;by John Milton, C.A. Patrides, E. A. J. HonigmannISBN 0333019458 (0-333-01945-8)
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Photographyby Bruce WarrenISBN 0314929142 (0-314-92914-2)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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Rolling Stone Images of Rock & Rollby Rolling Stone Editors, Anthony Decurtis, Fred WoodwardISBN 0316754684 (0-316-75468-4)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Salonby Nick BertozziISBN 0312354851 (0-312-35485-1)
Softcover, Griffin
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Season For The Deadby David HewsonISBN 0330493639 (0-330-49363-9)
Softcover, Trans-Atlantic Pubns
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A Season of Giants: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, 1492-1508by Vincenzo LabellaISBN 0316856460 (0-316-85646-0)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Sex and Spiritby Clifford Bishop, Amanda MurrayISBN 0316096067 (0-316-09606-7)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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A Short History Of The Moviesby Bruce Kawin, Bruce F. KawinISBN 0321262328 (0-321-26232-8)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Short History Of The Movies'Book summary:The ninth edition of A Short History of the Movies continues the tradition-scrupulously accurate in its details, up-to-date, free of jargon-that has made it the most widely adopted textbook for college courses in film history, and now includes a fresh look at "Persistence of Vision" and a new chapter on digital cinema. This volume offers students a panoramic overview of the worldwide development of film, from the first movements captured on celluloid, to the early Mack Sennett and Charlie Chaplin shorts, through the studio heyday of the 1930s and 1940s and the "Hollywood Renaissance" of the 1960s and 1970s, to the pictures and their technology appearing in the multiplexes and living rooms of today. This new edition, which has been revised and rewritten to reflect current scholarship, recent industry developments, and new films and filmmakers, represents an accurate, scrupulous updating of a classic. [via]
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A Short History of the Moviesby Gerald Mast, Bruce F. KawinISBN 0321106032 (0-321-10603-2)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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A Sourcebook of Gauguin's Symbolist Followers: Les Nabis, Pont-Aven, Rose + Croixby Russell T. Clement, Annick Houze, Christiane Erbolato-RamseyISBN 0313312052 (0-313-31205-2)
Hardcover, Praeger Pub Text
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Stealing History: Tomb Raiders, Smugglers, And the Looting of the Ancient Worldby ROGER ATWOODISBN 0312324073 (0-312-32407-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Still Acting Gay: Male Homosexuality in Modern Dramaby John M. ClumISBN 0312223846 (0-312-22384-6)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Tastemakersby Russell LynesISBN 031323843X (0-313-23843-X)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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Treasures of Thraceby Gerda Von BulowISBN 0312816499 (0-312-81649-9)
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Treasures of Tutankhamunby Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen EdwardsISBN 0345273494 (0-345-27349-4)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Treasures of Tutankhamunby National Gallery of Art (U.S.), Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen EdwardsISBN 0345256840 (0-345-25684-0)
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Vincent Van Goghby Marc Edo TralbautISBN 0333109104 (0-333-10910-4)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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The Well of Lost Plotsby Jasper FfordeISBN 0340825928 (0-340-82592-8)
Softcover, Hodder & Stoughton
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What Is Post-Modernism?by Charles JencksISBN 0312039883 (0-312-03988-3)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Whistler: A Biographyby Stanley WeintraubISBN 0306809710 (0-306-80971-0)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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William Morris by Himself: Designs and Writingsby William Morris, Gillian NaylorISBN 0356153207 (0-356-15320-7)
Hardcover, Macdonald Orbis
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The World of Goya, 1746-1828by Richard SchickelISBN 0316508608 (0-316-50860-8)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arlesby Martin GayfordISBN 0316769010 (0-316-76901-0)
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